Syncing Ical with two IMacs

Hi, My wife and I both have I Macs, and each have a separate mobile me account. We want to work from only 1 ICal. Can this be done? If o, how do you set this up?
Thanks

I believe it would be possible for you to run your own CalDAV server to achieve this, but it's quite a technical matter and I can't advise on it (possibly someone else can).
An easier solution - and cheaper in the long run than MobileMe - would be to use BusyCal - $49.99 or $79.99 for the Family Pack from the website, or cheaper in the Mac App Store. This is sort of 'iCal Pro' with a number of extra facilities. It uses iCal's database, so can easily be used as a replacement.
It can sync calendars instantly between Macs on a network - though both machines have to be on simultaneously for this to work: changes made on one Mac turn up seconds later on the other.
As an free alternative you may be able to get the desirable results with Google Calendar, running in a similar way to MobileMe (though I understand it doesn't handle ToDos). I don't know how effective or reliable this is.

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riklar, I'd recommend doing it easily through a *MobileMe membership* (from Apple). If you are a MobileMe member, just go to System Preferences > MobileMe > Sync ... and then put a check-mark beside those items (in your case, Calendars) you want to sync to another Mac, your iPhone or iPod touch, or just backup to MobileMe.
If you are not now a MobileMe member (yes, it costs per year, but IMHO is more than worth it), just go here and sign-up for a *FREE 60-day trial* --- then test all the benefits (and there are tons), including a solution to what you want to do. Hope this helps:
https://secure.me.com/wo/WebObjects/Signup.woa?svi=48F91223000057F2-A2B0BB500000 03A
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You don't. I asked Steve Balmer (CEO of Microsoft) and got this reply from his staff:
Thank you for your feedback and your interest in Outlook for Mac 2011.
Steve's office forwarded me your mail and asked me to reply. Outlook 2011
syncs with Exchange and Office 365 calendars, but as you point out there
is no consumer calendar service that syncs with Outlook 2011. Here's what
I do to work around the lack of direct sync: I keep my family calendar on
Hotmail Calendar, which works great through Safari on my Mac (and also
other popular browsers like Chrome), and syncs directly to my iOS devices
and my PC. I understand your frustration with not being able to see your
personal calendar directly in Outlook for Mac. Contrary to your
impression, we've never promised to add this feature, but we strongly
consider customer feedback like yours as we plan future versions. Thanks
again for your feedback and for taking time to write.
Thank you,
Eric Wilfrid
General Manager, Office for Mac

I just moved my mobile me account to the cloud. I can no longer sync iCal with my iMac running os 10.5 (this is an old iMac which cannot upgrade to Lion).

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Yes,that is the sad case, the only option other than a new Mac is to view iCal via Web on the older Mac & manually add changes to your old iCal.

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Thanks,
Nick

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I edited the laptop SysPrefs/iCloud account settings to [email protected] The laptop iCloud account is [email protected], and the two iPhones are [email protected]
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Hi Forgive me if this has already been asked previously. I am new here
We have 2 iMacs at home and want to sync our ical's
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Ian

The simplest way is to publish your both calendar to google calendar using CalDAV:
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=99358#
and each of you can see both within iCal and even modify the other calendar if the rights are done.
An alternative is to use iCal Exchange(http://www.icalx.com/) but in this case each can only see the other calendar, not modify it.
It works very well here. Good luck

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I bought an iMac few days ago. I would like to sync ical on my iMac with my professional calendar I use in my company (from outlook web access).
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Dennis,
You can try a work around that allows you to sync tasks and contacts to outlook using an alternate profile in outlook.
Create a new 'dummy' profile (ie CRMOD) in Outlook. You will need to make up a fake email server settings or base it on the IMAP connection to Beehive.
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Your users will have two contact, task and calendar folders on thier outlook desktop, but some folks prefer to separate their contact files and tasks anyway. Outlook will display a unified set of tasks if you view 'To-Do List'
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Does anybody have use an android phone in addition to apple devices, and have you figured out how to sync ical with all? (I know there are other calendars that can be used by all, but it means a lot to my husband to stay with ical.)

I tried Yahoo in the past but had trouble with duplicate entries. However, this was a while ago before Yahoo updated their site and this was with syncing to a Windows computer with Outlook in addition to a Mac so my results might not be typical. Yahoo's worth a shot, but my experience with Yahoo is why I use Google Calendar.
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